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Megaplatanos
Village in Macedonia, Greece From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Megaplatanos (Greek: Μεγαπλάτανος, before 1925: Μπίζοβο – Bizovo)[2] is a village in Pella regional unit, Macedonia, Greece.
Megaplatanos had 382 inhabitants in 1981.[3] In fieldwork done by anthropologist Riki Van Boeschoten in late 1993, Megaplatanos was populated by a Greek population descended from Anatolian Greek refugees who arrived during the Greek–Turkish population exchange, and Slavophones.[3] The Macedonian language was spoken in the village by people over 30 in public and private settings.[3] Children understood the language, but mostly did not use it.[3] Pontic Greek was spoken in the village by people over 30 in public and private settings.[3] Children understood the language, but mostly did not use it.[3] Turkish was possibly spoken by people over 60, mainly in private.[3]
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